pingo

PRONUNCIATION:

(PING-go)

MEANING:

noun:
A mound or hill of soil-covered ice in permafrost, pushed up by the
pressure of water seeping in.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Inuit pinguq/pingu (small hill).

USAGE:

"Out on the Arctic coastal plain below the northern foot of the Brooks,
the land is dotted with pingoes a foot or two tall."
Craig Medred; River Dance on the Hulahula; Anchorage Daily News (Alaska);
Jul 31, 2005.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on? -James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)